Mythical and legendary narrative in Ovid's Fasti /
This book analyses the mythical and legendary narratives in Ovid's Fasti as narrative and concentrates on the neglected literary aspects of these stories. It combines traditional tools of literary criticism with more modern techniques (taken especially from narratology and intertextuality). Fro...
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Language:
English
Latin
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
Series:
Mnemosyne, Supplements
263.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.
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Call Number: PA6519.F9 M87 2005eb
| Summary: | This book analyses the mythical and legendary narratives in Ovid's Fasti as narrative and concentrates on the neglected literary aspects of these stories. It combines traditional tools of literary criticism with more modern techniques (taken especially from narratology and intertextuality). From a narratological viewpoint it covers important features such as aperture, closure, characterization, internal narrators, description, space, time and cinematic technique. On the intertextual level it examines the narratives' complex relationship with Virgil, Livy and Ovid's own earlier works. Recent criticism on the Fasti has addressed various elements (religious, historical, political, astronomical et cetera), but detailed narrative study has been wanting. This book fills that gap, to provide a more informed and balanced appreciation of this multifaceted poem aimed at classicists and literary critics in general (for whom all the Latin is translated). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789047407225 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8958 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |